Tag: Starlink mission

SpaceX Launches Upgraded Starlink Satellites

Florida Today reports that SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday morning from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, carrying more Starlink satellites. The flight was Starlink’s 80th dedicated mission since first launching in 2019. Spaceflight Now reports that the rocket carried 21 Starlink V2 Mini satellites, which have “improved phased array antennas with four times the communications capacity of earlier generations of Starlink satellites.”
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Starlink Mission
On Wednesday, April 19 at 10:31 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched 21 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
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SpaceX Conducts Starlink Mission Launch and Successful Booster Landing

Spaceflight Now reports SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday at 1:51 p.m. EDT carrying 53 Starlink satellites into orbit thus “growing the company’s commercial internet network [as] ground teams seek to increase the already-blistering pace of Falcon 9 rocket missions.” Launch, initially scheduled to take place at 11:14 a.m.,
was delayed “due to high winds at the Florida spaceport.” The mission, named Starlink 4-14, marked “SpaceX’s 15th Falcon 9 launch of the year, and the 149th flight of a Falcon 9 rocket since the workhorse launcher debuted on June 4, 2010.”  After the launch, the rocket made a successful landing on the Just Read the Instructions drone ship stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
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SpaceX Schedules Two Starlink Launches Within Five Hours of Each Other

CNET News reports that SpaceX has scheduled the launch of a Starlink mission for Thursday at 1:19 a.m. EST. Another Starlink mission, whose Monday launch date was delayed, is now scheduled to launch Thursday at 5:36 a.m. EST. The two missions, scheduled within five hours of each other, would “represent the 18th and 19th Starlink launches overall.”
Full Story (CNET News)